The premiere of Crawford Productions’ first television drama series, Consider Your Verdict. Produced at HSV7’s “Teletheatre” and regarded as the first Australian-made one-hour drama series, Consider Your Verdict continued for over 160 episodes before winding up in 1964.
Source: TV Times, 16 February 1961.
| ABV2 | HSV7 | GTV9 | |
| 6AM | |||
| 7AM | 7am Music, Clock, Audio Time Calls 7.30 Today. Geoff Hiscock |
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| 8AM | 8.30 Dear Phoebe | ||
| 9AM | 9am Test Pattern, Music | ||
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| 12PM | 12.30pm Demonstration Film | 12pm Movie: If You Could Only Cook [IMDB] | |
| 1PM | 1pm Test Pattern, Music | 1.30pm Janet Dean | 1.30 Jane Wyman Theatre |
| 2PM | 2pm On Your Behalf. Jocelyn Terry, Michael Williamson 2.15 What’s Your Problem 2.30 It’s A Great Life |
2pm Fun With Food. Geraldine Dillon 2.20 Health Talk 2.30 Movie: Night In New Orleans [IMDB] |
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| 3PM | 3pm Lady For A Day. Larry Nixon | 3.30 Dragnet | |
| 4PM | 4pm Woman’s World. Jean Battersby 4.30 Rome Wasn’t Built In A Day 4.45 Kindergarten Playtime |
4.15 The Happy Cartoon Parade 4.30 Whirlybirds |
4pm Johnny Ringo 4.30 Wild Bill Hickok |
| 5PM | 5pm Children’s TV Club | 5pm The Happy Show. Happy Hammond, Shirley Radford, Lennie Holmes, Ivan Hutchinson | 5pm The Tarax Show. Ron Blaskett, Gerry Gee, Geoff Corke, Susan-Gaye Anderson, Margot Sheridan |
| 6PM | 6pm Jungle Boy 6.25 This May Interest You. Ruth Nye 6.30 The Phil Silvers Show |
6pm Cartoon Carnival 6.15 SSB Adventure Club. Brian Naylor, Madeleine Burke. Includes Huckleberry Hound 6.45 News, Weather |
6pm Komedy Korner 6.30 News. Eric Pearce, Jack Little. Includes Professor Browne’s Study |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News. Tom Horton 7.15 Newsreel, Weather 7.30 The Bob Cummings Show |
7pm The Nelsons 7.30 Sunnyside Up. Bill Collins |
7pm The Aquanauts |
| 8PM | 8pm ABC Sports Show 8.30 The Twilight Zone |
8.30 Desilu Playhouse | 8pm My Three Sons 8.30 77 Sunset Strip |
| 9PM | 9pm Beginners Please 9.30 Wool Customer 9.45 International Scene |
9.30 Consider Your Verdict PREMIERE | 9.30 Graham Kennedy’s Channel 9 Show |
| 10PM | 10pm Mystery Bag 10.30 ABC News, Newsreel 10.55 Close |
10.30 Bourbon Street Beat | 10.30 In Melbourne Tonight. Graham Kennedy, Geoff Corke, Joff Ellen, Philip Brady, Panda |
| 11PM | 11.30 Close | 11pm Movie: Morocco [IMDB] | |
| 12AM | 12.30am Close | ||
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